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NewTruthNeomaxim wrote:
I'm always down for more LotR, and this new boxed set actually has a few locals asking me to demo the game, and relaunch a community. The prospect of that makes me very happy, as i'd rather play LotR than chase the 40k/AoS meta anymore... :-p

I haven't kept up lately, but with all the restocks, etc... did Harad/Umbar become an attainable army again?

Yes, pretty much anything that does go out of stock is restocked in a week or so.

 judgedoug wrote:

 TheWaspinator wrote:

A related question: I want to see Theoden's sprues. If we're lucky, it will be easy to behead him and turn extras into generics by giving them a different head.

Theoden appears to have both unhelmeted and helmeted heads for each pose.

Damn. Now I will need to get two sets.

NewTruthNeomaxim wrote:
I'm always down for more LotR, and this new boxed set actually has a few locals asking me to demo the game, and relaunch a community. The prospect of that makes me very happy, as i'd rather play LotR than chase the 40k/AoS meta anymore... :-p

I haven't kept up lately, but with all the restocks, etc... did Harad/Umbar become an attainable army again?

Umbar by itself, not so much, but Harad certainly - the only thing we're really waiting on is Serpent Guard/Riders re-release and a Hasharin.

Just have to ask....well first comment...the swan foot knights look awesome. Will the mounted knights be redone to match the look of the foot knights? Those helmets look so much better.

The riders are plastic and there never has been a remake of a Lotr plastic box. It's highly unlikely they'd do one for Dol Amroth, especially since they are relatively new. There are some plastics that show their age, like most things from the first releases, Goblins, last alliance, Orks.

General Hobbs wrote:


Just have to ask....well first comment...the swan foot knights look awesome. Will the mounted knights be redone to match the look of the foot knights? Those helmets look so much better.

The resin foot knights were sculpted to match the plastic mounted knights... they are wearing the same armor and helmets.

So do we have a date for this new starter box?

Also, is it coming out with "the" new rule-book, or is there still the upcoming big-book of all things LotR?

Is it a terrible time to catch up on "older" books like There and Back again and Battle Companies, if I don't own them yet?

"by the end of summer" was the quote from Adam Troke. And summer ends in September.

And do we know if its rules will render "There and Back Again" moot... or is it potentially just the LotR to that book's "Hobbit"?

IIRC this will be a new set of rules. I can't remember exactly how it'll be broken up, but something like "forces of Lord of the Rings" and "forces of The Hobbit".

NewTruthNeomaxim wrote:
So do we have a date for this new starter box?

Also, is it coming out with "the" new rule-book, or is there still the upcoming big-book of all things LotR?

Is it a terrible time to catch up on "older" books like There and Back again and Battle Companies, if I don't own them yet?

1. End of August. Theoretically the preorder is August 25 with a release date of September 1.

2. As per the Warhammer Community article, the box set comes with the 208-page Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game Rulebook.

3. You can safely ignore the 2010 era Lord of the Rings blue army books. As per the Warhammer Community article, those are being replaced by a single hardcover "Armies of Lord of the Rings " book.
Battle Companies is safe, as it was future-proofed (see entries for "Angmar Orcs" and "Uruk-Hai Bows").
There And Back Again was written to bridge the gap into the new edition. However, I would expect it to be eventually replaced by a "Armies of The Hobbit" book that consolidates the profiles from "Heroes and Villains" (1st Hobbit film) and "There And Back Again" (2nd and 3rd films).

What is not known is if the "Armies of" books will have all of the scenarios from the (now OOP) Lord of the Rings Journeybooks or the scenarios from the Hobbit SBG book and There And Back Again book. If you are a scenario player, it is worth it to own all that stuff imho (I personally own anything with scenarios no matter how old, as they are all incredibly useful)

As it happens, I binned my existing Lord of the Rings blue books at the weekend; I'll pick up this new rulebook as and when I ever play again. I kept the Fellowship of the Ring boxed set rulebook, though, and I'd quite like to get the Two Towers and Return of the King books at some point, for he scenarios.

 AndrewGPaul wrote:
As it happens, I binned my existing Lord of the Rings blue books at the weekend; I'll pick up this new rulebook as and when I ever play again. I kept the Fellowship of the Ring boxed set rulebook, though, and I'd quite like to get the Two Towers and Return of the King books at some point, for he scenarios.

By "binned" do you literally mean "throw away"?

I would suggest trying to get the Lord of the Rings Journeybooks. Each has dozens of scenarios from both the films and the books, along with terrain making guides and painting guides for the models and terrain you need for each set of scenarios.

It'll be released at Ardacon SBG international in late august

Those Journeybooks will get remakes, like we will see new Thematic Books like the Moria Expedition or the War of the Last Allainces ect (as examples by me) - Adam Troke confirmed such Books last year.

RazorEdge wrote:
Those Journeybooks will get remakes, like we will see new Thematic Books like the Moria Expedition or the War of the Last Allainces ect (as examples by me) - Adam Troke confirmed such Books last year.

I asked that question in Twitch and he said that he loved those books and they would like to plan to do them again. It wasn't 100%

I own tons of the old books, and have literally every book barring Battle Companies (which I just ordered upon finding an old, glowing Judgedoug review elsewhere), and The BIG new hardcover Hobbit book which i'll probably just skip for now while we wait for the new book releases.

The only Hobbit-era army I want to eventually expand would require a LOT of Forgeworld Dwarves, so those will be a long wait anyway...

My wife has been wanting to try Rohan for years, so I just bought her a foot/mounted Eowyn, and figure we'll wait for the value proposition of the new starter in August.

One quick question, despite knowing this isn't the ideal place to ask (but it IS the most active Middle Earth talk i've seen in ages...), but are Wanderers of the Wild represented in Battle Companies at all...?

Sgt. Cortez wrote:
The riders are plastic and there never has been a remake of a Lotr plastic box. It's highly unlikely they'd do one for Dol Amroth, especially since they are relatively new. There are some plastics that show their age, like most things from the first releases, Goblins, last alliance, Orks.

Nice! I did not know they redid the knights in plastic! They look so much better.

Ooooh boy sign me up for those sweet Knights of Dol Amorth the second they come out.

Keep looking at this set and really can’t wait. This is the first gw release that has got me excited for the first time in a long while.

Will be digging out the Isengard set I have over the weekend plus already looking at some terrain ideas for Rohan. Hmm maybe a box of Uruk hai scouts should be ordered too.

Been many years since i last dabbled in the lord of the rings, roll on the release day so can crack open some mead and start building horse riders lol.

Does look like a superb box set, hopefully it will really re-ignite the LOTR game, which it deserves as a truly great system

NewTruthNeomaxim wrote:
One quick question, despite knowing this isn't the ideal place to ask (but it IS the most active Middle Earth talk i've seen in ages...), but are Wanderers of the Wild represented in Battle Companies at all...?

No, I supposed it would be hard to do that - maybe a single Ent as most, and even that is a stretch (biggest guys in BC are cave troll and gundabad ogre), so you'd be looking at Wildmen of Druadan as your guys, which don't offer much flexibility in terms of upgrades and whatnot.

However, they've released multiple BC in White Dwarf - and a full BC campaign - so it wouldn't surprise me!

So had a look on the web store to see what was still available, I see that sharku is one of many that’s not on there.

That’s a shame as never got him last time around. Would have been cool to have him heading a pack of warg riders.

eBay is awash with LOTR models, and any that were sold with the magazine series can normally be had at a reasonable price

Indeed, Sharku mounted is quite easy to find. It's his foot version that's a pig.

The box content is pretty neat and so, but could someone already look into the new book. What is its content? new rules? etc

 Paintalist wrote:
The box content is pretty neat and so, but could someone already look into the new book. What is its content? new rules? etc

to be previewed in the coming weeks.


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 xKillGorex wrote:
So had a look on the web store to see what was still available, I see that sharku is one of many that’s not on there.

That’s a shame as never got him last time around. Would have been cool to have him heading a pack of warg riders.

Warg Attack is still available from Warhammer World if you can get someone to get you a copy (there's people on the Great British Hobbit League fb group that do WHWorld excursions to buy and ship exclusives for members of the community) which comes with Sharku

Also; the Middle Earth team has stated that every profile will have a model; several oop models have come back in production since then. I can't imagine Sharku would be left out, as he's really the only orc Warg hero.

They said last Year, they will bring back every OOP Model from the Lotr Range.

This excitement is getting my Middle Earth blood up. I didn't intend to go crazy... I really didn't.... and then I woke up from a spending haze and discovered I just ordered an Iron Hills army from Forgeworld....

RazorEdge wrote:
They said last Year, they will bring back every OOP Model from the Lotr Range.

Ah that’s good to know.